Your complete mental fitness toolkit by Dr Alex George ''How are you? No really, how are you?'' Learn how to assess your mental health today and understand what''s normal for you. This is the mental health toolkit that will help you thrive. The Mind Manual is broken down into four parts with each one building on the last. The goal is to help you to establish your baseline, to know what peace feels like to you. And then to offer advice and tools to help you maintain that as much as possible. Part 1 looks at how to figure out where your baseline is and what normal feels like for you. It''s all about recognising your own needs so that you can best support yourself when issues arise. Part 2 explores the seven universal truths and how they can support you when you mind is telling you lies. These seven truths are: Connection is your superpower; Sleep will save you; Boundaries are beautiful; Mistakes are a must-have; Stress is the enemy; You are enough; Happiness is an inside job. Part 3 focuses on the foundations of mental fitness and explores the five different areas of life. These include what you eat and drink, how you release stress from your body, how much you move, how to talk out your thoughts and how to approach the medical side of things. Part 4 is your mental health toolkit, where you''ll find a wide range of worksheets and activity tools to use. These can help while reading the book, but can also be used regularly in your day-to-day life to check in on how you''re coping.

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Dr Alex George is an A&E and TV doctor. He has been working in A&E as an emergency doctor throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and has become a well-known and respected figure amongst healthcare professionals in the UK, bringing the nation accessible and reassuring advice directly from the frontline.

Alex is on a mission to make mental health education compulsory in schools, and has become prolific throughout the UK in his campaigning with charities such as YoungMinds, Anna Freud Centre & Mind, with a goal to ensure mental health sits alongside the likes of Maths and English on the curriculum. Alex has now been appointed by the Prime Minister as Youth Mental Health Ambassador to the government.

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The ultimate handbook for everyday health.

WHAT CAN YOU CHANGE TODAY, AND NOT PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW?

Dr Alex is on a mission to empower us to make our own health choices, take positive control and feel equipped and inspired to make those small changes today that energise and future-proof for life.

"Health and happiness come from the cumulative effects of many small and positive daily changes to our lifestyle. It's about building sustainable and healthy habits - taking small and purposeful steps to a healthy future. By the end of the book I hope my readers have developed their own 'bespoke health toolkit' to be used across every aspect of their lives, and to make long-lasting and meaningful change."

What you do consistently has a direct impact on your day-to-day health, your immune system, your mental health, your metabolism, your bone density, your heart health, your blood pressure, your energy levels and how you fight disease generally. Your lifestyle is often your body's biggest support system and the more robust you can make that, the more you can rely on it to get you through. Think of it like your life insurance policy.

With detailed sections dedicated to informing us on how our mental health can impact our physical health, and what we can change in our day-to-day lifestyle choices to combat this, *The Mind Manual *is a must have toolkit for anyone looking to take their first steps towards a brighter, healthier and happier future.

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Your ultimate handbook for mental fitness from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author.